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G20: police expecting massive protests on April 1-2

@narcho | 20.03.2009 18:27 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | Policing | Social Struggles

The police are gearing up to expect massive protests at the G20 (Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) meetings that are happening on April 1 and 2.

Mainstream media are reporting that police are expecting large numbers of anarchists and environmentalists to turn up to disrupt proceedings in the City of London on April 1, and at the Excel conference centre in London Docklands on April 2.

In addition to the usual suspects, they expect to see old faces from the 1990s, more students than before, and more overseas activists.

After they have hyped it up and given us free publicity, let's not disappoint them!

[Police warn of G20 protest scale:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7955057.stm]

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unique title

20.03.2009 19:05

so fight or run!

ratamahatta


some police seniors & corporate politicians want a kettle & violence, lets not

20.03.2009 20:52

give it to them. Lets laugh in face of capitalism meltdown, happy april fools

George orwell


After they have hyped it up and given us free publicity.

21.03.2009 00:23

After they have hyped it up and given us free publicity, let's not disappoint them!

I thought this was odd too I wonder why all the fuss in the media... certainly, free publicity it is, yes...

loppy


Police provocation?

21.03.2009 10:03

Maybe the cops are talking it up to get extra expenditure/overtime in difficult times and to try to justify any illegal and violent actions they may take against peaceful demonstrators. Maybe they are also using it as a free training exercise.

Wotsit


Waste of time.

21.03.2009 10:41

The threat of people on the streets won't scare the establishment and their capitalist allies these days. This may have been seen as a serious threat in the sixties but we are in a different world today. Riots and throwing petrol bombs will not damage, or worry, the New World Order, Bilderberg types. Their agenda is going nicely and will need far more organised resistance set up on military lines.

Ulrike Meinhof


and the first intervention of the state is....

21.03.2009 11:34

getting people to suggest stupid things like "military" type organising.

Get a grip, the social change will have to involve millions and millions of people in the process not some drop-outs from art college loading up on guns!

Anarchist


change of venue

21.03.2009 13:35

i hear that some protesters will be demonstrating at secret locations across the country, don't tell anyone.

Itza Secret


irony...

22.03.2009 00:40

Does anyone know where the extra police are being shipped in from ?

Would be great to have some mass demo's in their home patches while there off playing with the met and city of london types

ether


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G20 Which side are you on?

22.03.2009 13:53

It has to be made clear as the hype and propaganda towards the G20 builds on both sides  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7955057.stm  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423642.html we need to ask which side are we on?

Do we enjoy the spectacle of the spectacular of The Middle Class fighting the police, or do we keep raising the concerns of The Police State, that the state to some extent will allow such protesters there moment so they can increase the pressure upon The Working Class, from Climate Change to The Global Crises it is not the making of The Working Class, once again the greed and actions of The Middle Class have brought us here.

The protest over the next coming weeks has nothing to do with the injustice of our class, it has more to do with The Middle Class protecting and protesting to save there privilege, the state welcomes there protest in private as it is a means to practice and clamp down on the Working Class, and if we are asked at underclassrising which side are we are on it has to be made clear neither:

In the last weeks a report was made to parliament [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424120.html] into the abuse of police powers during the climate camp protests at Kingsnorth in 2008. The report [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424121.html] and accompanying video [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/423345.html] documented systemic abuses of power including blanket stop and searches, arbitrary seizure of property, and a campaign of phycological intimidation which included sleep deprivation through helicopter overflying late into the night, mock night and dawn raids by tooled up riot police, and the infamous ‘Flight of the Valkyries’ incident.

Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424002.html].

David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/406021.html
over-policing], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing.”

The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [ https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/423696.html] as well as harassing sympathetic journalists.

The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of ‘the summer of rage’ in [ http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423055.html] which they began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression of the right to protest, and further attacks upon The Working Class:

http://underclassrising.net/


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All The Hype:

22.03.2009 16:51

G20 Which side are you on?

22.03.2009 13:53
It has to be made clear as the hype and propaganda towards the G20 builds on both sides  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7955057.stm  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423642.html we need to ask which side are we on?

Do we enjoy the spectacle of the spectacular of The Middle Class fighting the police, or do we keep raising the concerns of The Police State, that the state to some extent will allow such protesters there moment so they can increase the pressure upon The Working Class, from Climate Change to The Global Crises it is not the making of The Working Class, once again the greed and actions of The Middle Class have brought us here.

The protest over the next coming weeks has nothing to do with the injustice of our class, it has more to do with The Middle Class protecting and protesting to save there privilege, the state welcomes there protest in private as it is a means to practice and clamp down on the Working Class, and if we are asked at underclassrising which side are we are on it has to be made clear neither:

In the last weeks a report was made to parliament [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424120.html] into the abuse of police powers during the climate camp protests at Kingsnorth in 2008. The report [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424121.html] and accompanying video [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/423345.html] documented systemic abuses of power including blanket stop and searches, arbitrary seizure of property, and a campaign of phycological intimidation which included sleep deprivation through helicopter overflying late into the night, mock night and dawn raids by tooled up riot police, and the infamous ‘Flight of the Valkyries’ incident.

Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/424002.html].

David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/406021.html
over-policing], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing.”

The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/...3/423696.html] as well as harassing sympathetic journalists.

The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of ‘the summer of rage’ in [  http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423055.html] which they began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression of the right to protest, and further attacks upon The Working Class:

MTMCH


read the Guide to Public Order Situations

25.03.2009 17:29

Read it at  http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/manchester/porder.htm or download it to print here:  http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/manchester/porder.pdf

It's useful for dealing with crowd situations where the police want to stop you doing what you want to do, and gives you an idea for what tactics you might want to prepare.

And any updates from stuff you observe during the G20, send them in to the email address listed in the guide (the manchester AT earthfirst.org.uk one - incorrect address listed in the PDF), or by post.
It's due for an update. Thanks.

to prepare for the G20


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